The Seed

Drone Innovation in UK Agriculture with Jack Wrangham, Founder of Drone Ag

April 01, 2021 Jake Wombwell Povey Season 1 Episode 11
The Seed
Drone Innovation in UK Agriculture with Jack Wrangham, Founder of Drone Ag
Show Notes

Today's guest is Jack Wrangham, Founder of Drone Ag
(@dronesforag)

With more than 10 years of drone experience, Jack founded Drone Ag on his family farm in 2015 with the aim of looking at how drone technology could help farming.

Drone Ag enables more productive and sustainable farming through practical drone automation and AI systems.

Drone Ag delivers the Skippy Scout drone-based scouting programme. Fast, efficient, automated scouting & reporting - Skippy Scout uses farmer’s smartphones to fly a drone and collect data at key points in their fields. Then it creates field reports on crop health, problems and progress in minutes.

We're going to be exploring Jack’s journey towards becoming a sustainability leader, dig into the world of agtech and drone-enabled business models, and learn about Drone Ag’s own unique value proposition.

Enjoy the show!

Episode recorded 12th March 2021

In today’s episode we cover:

  • How measuring soil and plant health is key to modern agriculture.
  • What Farming will look like in 5 / 10 years
  • Why we need farmers and scientists to come together on AgTech innovation.
  • The changing value proposition on farms and the challenge of getting farmers to engage with them
  • RTK  GPS
  • More info + better decision making
  • Profit and sustainability
  • Employment in agriculture
  • Rewilding

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